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1. How to start Performance
Testing project?
A practical guide to performance testers
Author: NaveenKumar Namachivayam
Writer at www.QAInsights.com

2. ● Send business proposal to the
clients

3. ● Once your client agreed, start
collecting Non-Functional
Requirements

4. ● Non-Functional requirements such
as Response Time, Throughput,
Transactions per sec, CPU usage,
Memory, Disk, Network etc.

5. ● Industry standards like Response
Time < 5 seconds, CPU and
Memory usage < 60%

6. ● Identify Critical Scenarios

7. ● If your client is not able to provide
critical scenarios and workload
models, we can derive it from the
server logs.

8. ● Tools like 123loganalyzer, Deep
Log Analyzer, AWstats, Analog etc.

9. ● If no server logs available, analyze
the business applications and
identify the critical scenarios.

10. ● E.g. Banking application.
Critical Scenarios will be
1. Login
2. Check Balance
3. Apply for Loans
4. Pay Bills
...etc...

11. ● Identify the performance testing
tool

12. ● Record your critical scenarios

13. ● Enhance your scripts such as
1. Inserting Transactions
2. Correlations
3. Think Time
4. Run time settings
5. Browser settings
6. Cache settings
... etc...
then perform a unit test to baseline the
script

14. ● Create Scenarios to execute. Define
following:
1. Ramp-up period
2. Steady State
3. Ramp-down period
4. Loops
5. Mix of transactions
6. IP Spoofing
...etc...

15. ● Execute the scenario at least three cycles.
1. Baseline Test
Perform the test with 15-20% of target load
2. Load Test
Perform with actual load for three cycles.
Steady State duration: min. 1 hr
3. Stress Test
Perform load test and then slowly ramp-up the
load step-by-step. Disable Think time and Cache
settings
Steady State duration: min. 2-3 hr
4. Endurance Test
Perform load test for 10-14 hours to identify
memory leaks

16. ● Collect metrics such as
1. Response Time
2. Throughput
3. Transactions per second
4. CPU Usage
5. Memory
6. Disk utilization
● Prepare Report
● Baseline the report
● Compare with Benchmarks and previous results

17. Thank you!
Happy Performance Testing!
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